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Originally Posted by bizaro86
My big concern here is we end up getting a week in the middle of January with the Wild on Sunday/Monday and then Phoenix on Wednesday/Friday...
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I don't understand this problem, and I mean that sincerely I don't get why people see this as a problem.
We play those teams anyway. Of we play those games on one week, then we don't play them any other weeks. How is it worse if they're back to back?
It likely adds some extra emotion to the latter game, because the players will care more about not losing to the same team twice in a row.
I think it would also add some novelty value, if every team only comes to visit once a year, the only difference being how many games they stay.
Just imagine how heated games against Edmonton would become, if instead of four individual games you'd just have two two-game matchups, once in Edmonton and once in Calgary. Those trips would really become the highlight of the regular season without the actual number of games dropping. I'm pretty sure players and fans would be a lot more aware of the situation in the season series than they are now.
At least the way I see it, it would be slot more memorable to win two games in a row, than win one game now and one game two months from now.
At least to me that would be simply better.